Txxxx & driverXXXX failures.

[Karel Gardas]

Unfortunately cleaning the build tree does not help. At least I've 
completely rm -rf tempbuild subdirectory on builder and still I get 39 
unexpected failures, see:
http://darcs.haskell.org/ghcBuilder/builders/kgardas-opensolaris-x86-head/190/11.html

Thanks,
Karel

On 04/13/11 01:52 PM, Edward Z. Yang wrote:
> I suggest cleaning the build trees and letting them try again.
> I think we fixed the first set in the test suite, and the second set is a problem
> with build dependencies and the RTS.
>
> Edward
>
> Excerpts from Karel Gardas's message of Wed Apr 13 07:11:25 -0400 2011:
>>
>> Edward,
>>
>> if I recall correctly you have hinted on cvs-ghc@ mailing list that you
>> still need to solve Txxxx and driverYYYY failures caused by some of your
>> patches. I'm curious is it still the case? If not, then I would like to
>> bring your attention to freebsd[3] and opensolaris[4] based builders
>> where such failures are still presented and were not presented at the
>> beginning of April. For example speaking about opensolaris builder which
>> is run on my workstation and I care about it. The builder runs with 12
>> unexpected failures for a long time till April 5[1]. Then on April 6
>> there was a build failure due to some issue in makefiles and then on
>> April 7 driverXXXX start to fail:
>>
>> driver016(normal)
>> driver017(normal)
>> driver028(normal)
>> driver035(normal)
>> driver045(normal)
>>
>> contributing to total 17 unexpected failures and finally on April 9 we
>> got to 38 unexpected failures[2]. Very similar pattern you can also
>> observe on FreeBSD based HEAD builder [3] except that the number of
>> failures in total is a little bit lower.
>>
>> I'm asking you because of your hint on mailing list and since I'm not
>> able to judge what patch exactly causes the failures yet. Do you think
>> that's some of yours or shall I report those new failures to ghc trac?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Karel
>>
>>
>> [1]:
>> http://darcs.haskell.org/ghcBuilder/builders/kgardas-opensolaris-x86-head/183/11.html
>> [2]:
>> http://darcs.haskell.org/ghcBuilder/builders/kgardas-opensolaris-x86-head/185/11.html
>> [3]: http://darcs.haskell.org/ghcBuilder/builders/pgj/
>> [4]:
>> http://darcs.haskell.org/ghcBuilder/builders/kgardas-opensolaris-x86-head/
>